African-American music
Blues, jazz, gospel
African-American music encompasses musical traditions created by Black Americans, including spirituals, blues, jazz, gospel, rhythm and blues, soul, funk, and hip-hop.
These genres have profoundly shaped American popular music and influenced styles worldwide.
The term acknowledges both the African roots and the distinctly American evolution of these forms: a course on African-American music from field hollers to trap.
- hip-hopRhythmic spoken-word music
- rhythm and bluesPostwar Black popular music
- soulInnermost animating essence
- jazzImprovisational American music genre
- New Orleans jazzTraditional brass-band improvisation style
boogie woogie · gospel · blues · juke joint · work songs · call-and-response · spirituals · rap · slave songs · ragtime · funk · swing · doo-wop · syncopation · rhythmic · Harlem Renaissance · Motown sound · the dozens
African-American musicAppalachian music
Folk sounds from eastern mountains
Celtic music · country music · bluegrass · Indian classical music
African-American musicorchestral music
Music for full ensemble
opera · chamber music · symphonic music · Gregorian chant · court music
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